Bedsores And Pressure Ulcers, Unveiling Nursing Management And Interventional Approaches For Control And Prevention

Abstract

Bedsores of pressure ulcers are the most prevalent complication among bedridden patients in all statuses, nursing interventions may improve the pressure ulcers and then improve the whole patient’s quality of life. This study aims to assess the impact of nursing interventions to prevent bedsores and pressure ulcers in bedridden cases during their home care disciplines. A case control study design was conducted among elderly patients diagnosed with bedsores or pressure ulcers, they were obeyed to homecare nursing interventions, the study consisted of development of nursing interventions to cases and after 2 weeks of that intervention, a skin Assessment Observation Checklist with using Braden Scale for Assessing Pressure Ulcer Risk were reported. All data was then collected to be analyzed using appropriate statistical tests by SPSS program version 26.0. Among 138 subjects were considered as participants in this study, divided as, 70 cases and 68 controls who were not received any nursing interventions, they are normally distributed according to their age ranges, and with approximately equality in gender, most of them are married and have high education (p>0.05). After 2 weeks of nursing interventions, the skin condition was varied according to its health status and physical appearance, cases showed a significant difference than controls (p < 0.05). The assessed burden scale reported that there is a significant difference in pressure ulcer health condition before, during, and after interventions by nurses (p<0.05) with high mean change in controls as compared to cases. The assessment of pressure ulcers/or bedsores was reported by 5 stages after the interventions made by nurses to report that the cases reported that most of cases had stage 0 with complete remission as compared to controls (p<0.01). The risks after the interventions were also reported to show that most cases had no risks. In conclusion, nursing interventions are the most effective approaches in homecare patients to improve their pressure ulcers and alleviate the risk of being returned.